I wouldn’t call a game that came out in 2023 “old”.
PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
Submitted 5 weeks ago by tal@lemmy.today to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
For publisher bottom lines, it absolutely would be!
Basically anything not purchased this fiscal quarter may as well be non-existent to them - hence the push towards reoccurring monetisation.
Meanwhile I’m currently (slowly) playing through a massive backlog of games from the 2010s, so I’m good!
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The game I most recently bought is Trackmania United Forever, still $15 on sale even though it came out in 2008. I suppose my purchase of that is less though than of what they get from a user playing their new subscription based (!) racing game for a year.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Just 1 year can make certain genres ancient. Mostly multiplayer only titles, but also meme games.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I think most big budget multiplayer games last 2-5 years, but there are some (among us, fall guys, lethal company, etc) that pass pretty quickly, and some that are just bad enough that they are basically outdated already when they come out.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
- 7.1% of the total hours spent were on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Counter-Strike 2
- 6.4% were in League of Legends
- 6.2% were in Roblox
- 5.8% were in Dota 2
- 5.4% were in Fortnite
Proud to say I don’t play any of those. Screw live service games, there are plenty of other gems out there to keep me entertained.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I’d say don’t yuck someone’s yum but I tried league of legends years ago and it’s why I avoid any game that makes me interact with strangers.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Valve have worked so hard to disgust me away from dota 2, they’re so real for this ❤️
CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
What counts as an “older game?” Surely not thinks about the games I played last week Tie Fighter?
smeg@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Actual answer:
The data shows that from January 2024 to December 2024, 67% of player hours on PC were spent on a game that was six or more years old. A further 25% of player hours were spent on games that were two to five years old, and the remaining 8% of time was spent on games that are less than two years old.
Sample:
The results are extrapolated from a yearly in-depth survey of 73,000 players, alongside data from over 10,000 games
loaf@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Baldur’s Gate 2 forever. 🖤
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Dungeon Keeper 4 lyfe
loaf@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Another amazing one.
Ohhh, and the original Diablo. Tristram was such a familiar place after a while.
steeznson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dungeon Keeper 2 is good in its own way but definitely lost some of its original magic.
There was an indie series called Overlord (I think, can’t quite recall) which tried to be a Cities: Skyline type homage to Dungeon Keeper. I played it many years ago and it did scratch the same itch so you might be interested.
samus12345@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
“Buffy Oak. A small location where the people just sit around all day and enjoy each other’s company. They talk, laugh, and sing without ever arguing, drawing daggers, and dying in a gurgling rush of blood. A truly bizarre place.”
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dark Alliance for me lately
loaf@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Been playing that one on PS5 lately. I feel bad for neglecting BG3, but it’s such an investment, and I know I’ll get distracted.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 weeks ago
I should do another run soon. Maybe add some more mods this time…
loaf@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s my go-to “storyline” game. I have so many great (and terrible—thanks, Lich) memories of that game.
I picked it up on a whim, not knowing a single thing about it. Next thing you know, I’m collecting every Black Isle/BG game and spinoff.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve been playing Unreal Gold from 1998. I never finished it.
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Played left 4 dead 2 last night with friends. Still awesome
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Still hate spitters though.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
PvP jockeys are the real menace
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Older games are better because the devs pretty much had freedom to do what they wanted to do. In modern games the suits tell the devs what they have to do. That’s the point when the games started to suck.
WagnasT@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We never should have kept going after Tribes 2
Kissaki@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Did you not enjoy Tribes Ascend?
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Are there any active tribes games? I miss that vibe so much.
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
OHHHH MY GOD YOU JUST HIT ME RIGHT IN THE GIZZARD WITH THE NOSTALGIA
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I’m building an arcade stand I can put in front of my TV so I can play emulated games with my kids. I could not care less about most of the new games coming out these days.
GPU prices priced me out of the gaming market, got new hobbies now.
steeznson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There is something satisfying about going back and cranking Far Cry 2 or some other older game to max settings / 4k with an extremely modest GPU.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Love to see metrics im apart of. I only play TF2, Minecraft and emulate PS2 games nowadays.
Gurei@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
A lot of my friends weren’t into the shift from Fallout 3’s third person open world to the original game’s isometric perspective; Understandable, but that’s what I grew up on. I enjoy revisiting 1 & 2 every other year or so. Also, Sid Meiers Pirates hadn’t adapted well to modern systems, but has a clean gameplay loop that I enjoy revisiting.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Sid Meiers Pirates
This game rocks.
rabber@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Elden Ring and Poe2 are like the only recent games on PC I’ve cared about
dvlsg@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Baldurs Gate 3 was good. And I hear good things about Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
New games have very little offer me, apart from higher specs I’d have to upgrade for. Just played through Prey and the two Dishonoreds, and they’re good but still just revamps of System Shock 2 and Thief, so I don’t regret not paying them at the time. The really groundbreaking games nowadays tend to be indie anyway.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Their metric for “older” is two years or more.
Redkey@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if book readers spend 92% of their time on older books. Or if music listeners spend 92% of their time on older pieces.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 weeks ago
Especially if “older” means two years or older.
samus12345@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
According to the article, they mean 6 years old or older.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
True, though both of those industries also use a hype cycle to try and shift new content at much higher prices, though every book and CD that ever existed are probably in a second-hand shop somewhere.